A Cynical Writer...

 believes in fairies...

@VaccineFairy got my slot on friday.

Don't think I'll need the cartoon...

 for equality vs. equity again.  I'll just think about how it's hard for me to get a shot.

I guess it's *equal* to say that my wheelchair wouldn't keep me from waiting in line at the stadium, but it doesn't seem equitable.

Got the Vaccine Fairy on the case, though.

Taking Another Chance...

 submitting for a UK disability issue. (Will the piece translate?) Trying to focus on the nerve I had to put things out there, and not just how alienating it is not to be special enough for the special issue.

In Which Algorithms, like Parents, Just Don't Understand

 I signed this petition because it's no skin off my back, you know? Who's to say that this kind of symbolic gesture *won't* inspire Flynn? We are all different, after all(indeed, so much so that I  have never seen even another CP person with a body like mine, and I'm over forty, very aware of CP, but not aware that we have an Awareness Day)

I'd like people to be more Aware that we don't stay kids, for one thing.(Think I'd light up the AMA, or somewhere else with lots of doctors, because that's where the dumbest comments ,e.g."I thought that affected kids," so does maturity, genius.) come from. Grocery checkers just take your word on it.

As benignly dorky as this comes off to me, I sort of hate that writing about my life might have set this up.(Not as much as when Facebook offers me a fundraiser...talk about adding insult to injury.)

I Get Better News When I Forget Stuff...

 Something I wrote about coronavirus in the fall got accepted in an artists-and-covid anthology.
Still hate writing bio statements, but it's getting a little better...

watch this space for more info.

Why Reading "Nomadland" Reminded me Of Inspiration Porn...

 First, let's clarify whatinspiration porn is(Stella Young provided an excellent summary.)

It's not really the writing.Reporter Jessica Bruder pitched in at the Amazon warehouse and the beet farm, and i think she did a decent job of trying to understand what keeps the nomads on the road. But I couldn't help being reminded of a poster from Disabled Student Resources that felt like a compliment when I started at the university, and kind of backhanded slap two years later. Anyway, the point of the poster was about how we disabled people actually never take off from work and work longer at the same job, etc.

Which is what pervades this book about these older white people living on close to nothing, that they do these part-time underpaid jobs with great attitudes and full commitment(and no sick days)

Maybe if it was more of a choice, instead of a last response to increasing desperation,nomadism could be cool.

Low-Hanging Fruit, But...

 just read, via The Hill(yes, I read too much about politics, for real) that MS governor Tate Reeves was quoted as saying he "wanted to get out of the business of telling people what they can do."as he removed the mask mandate from his state.

That must be news if you want an abortion.

Or community services for your disability(Still intensely grieved that a mentor of mine was denied increased attendant services living with his parents in MS, and died in the midst of fundraising for his life.) Rest in Power, Greg Smith.

Argh. Can almost understand why some liberals are feeling punitive about treatment, vaccines, etc, though  I still think it's the wrong play.